The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-01
SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.


kill or be killed before he would surren-
der. His two step-sons were wounded.
The Sidney family was a terror to the
! community
/ Moses Miller, a coIored man living in
Lynchburg, Va, chOked his wife to death
a few nights ago, and then cut his own
/ throat Miller may possibly recover.
/ Jealousy is assigned as the cause Of the
| murder.
The Governor of Louisiana has OF cred
reward for the conviction of the persons
implicated in outrages recently commit
ted in the parish of West Carroll against
Polish jews, with the view of driving
them out of the community.
Mingo Jones, negro was tried recently
at Memphis, Tenn, for the murder of the
Justi family on the Pigeon Roost road and
was declared not guilty. AS Jones has
| sentence of ninety-nine years in the peni-
| tentiary for the poisoning of woman
over him, his acquittal is of little moment
| to him.
| 1t is stated that the widow Of President
Polk keeps ali her husbands private eff
fects in his old Office at Nashville, Tenn,
| quite undisturbed
Julia Darrow, colored, one hundred and
| eight years old, supposed to be the oldest
woman in the State, died recently at
Gloversville, Ky. She was born in Mont
! gomery County in 1719 and was a slave on
there until sold to her late husband at the
| age of sixteen for $3.50 She was the
| mother of seventeen children, three of
whom survive her. She leaves considera-
BILE property.
The North Carolina Legislature at its
recent session, passed an act which is
copy of the New York law, prohibiting the
! publication of lottery advertis ements in
/ North Carolina. The penalty is severe,
| and the publisher of a newspaper is in
dictabIe in any county where it circulates
| if it contains such an advertisement. The
| first paper to be indicted is the Whining.
! to- Star.
John B. Simmons, a highly respected
| merchant doing bus ness a short distance
! from Russ ellviIle, KY, was murdered by
unknown parties a few nights ago, and
| the money in the store and on his person,
only a small amount, was taken. The
most intense excitement prevailed n the
| neighborhood of tire tragedy ''1tt
! A party of st. Louis capitalists and
| others having a desire to see the booms
and boomlets in process of development
in the South, have recently been doing
! the centeFs of attraction in Tennessee and
Alabama.
! Arthur J. Durbin, one of the oldest and
best known Catholic priests in the West,
died at Shelbyville, KY, a few days ago,
in his eightv-eighth year. BE was buried
from the Cathedral in Louisville.
Of the one hundred soldiers who went
| from Sullivan County, Tenn, to take part
in the Mexican war twelve are living.
A half million dollar hotel is among the
! contemplated improvements at Birming
ham, Ala, this spring.
Negotiations are in progress with Gin
cinnati firm to establish a large rolling
mill at Decatur Ala.
Iron and coal have been discovered at
Mansfield, La, and the inhabitants of the
place are busily working up a boom look
ing to the development of their buried
treasures.
An immense meat curing establishment
is to be put up at Colorado City, Tex,
using a new chemical process, recently
discovered, which preserves dressed
meats better and cheaper than by refrig-
Grafton.
Michael Flaherty, one of the crew ofthe
snag boat John R. Meigs, now operating
in the Tallahatchie river, was drowned
few days ago by the upsetting of a skiff in
which he was crossing the river with two
other men. Flaherty was from st. Louis,
and was an old steamboatman.
Hon. John Sherman received a deputa-
tion of colored men at the Metropolitan
Hotel, Birmingham, Ala, during his stay
in tn at city recently, who presented him
with an address highly fattering and
complimentary to the Ohio statesman, to
which Mr.. Sherman made a brief but
cordial response.
The largest single sale of cotton on
record was made at Galveston, Tex, a
few days ago. J. P Willis & Bro. sold
| $500 bales, stored in that city, to Messrs
Kaufman & Runge for an amount ap-
proximating $4,000.
Jerucia, a Mexican woman, twenty
years of age, while sitting alone in front
of fire at her home near San Antonio,
/ Tex, few evening since, fell, in an
| epileptic fit, into the burning embers, and
when rescued by a passing nelghbor was
found to be so badly burned that her re-
| covery was impossible.
The Female seminary at Franklin, KY,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
| Loss, SC, ,O0O; no insurance.
A large cotton factory is to be erected
at Columbus, Miss, on the site of the old
! Jail in that city, which was recently pur-
chased by the Tombigbee Cotton Factory
| Company A new and improved Jail is to
be erected at once upon property secured
by the county for that purpose.
Fire few nights ago destroyed fofr
stores on Dryades street, New Orleans.
! The loss is estimated at $4,000; fully in
sured. The following were burned out:
J. T. McKenna, grocery; Boyland's
| crockery store; Gin ble's shoe store and
an adjoining furnit ure store.
James Thomas, Sr., father of john w
Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chat
days ago, aged eighty five years. The de-
| ceased was well known and highly re-
spected.
The trial of Ike Vincent, the defaulting
captured ex-State Treasurer of Alabama,
has been set for April II. Attorney-Gen-
eral Mcclellan will assist in the prosecU-
tion, which the Governor says will be Wig
orOus
At Somerset, KY, VIM. Bates, deputy
United States marshal, shot a man named
Cheney through the heart, a few nights
ago, at State Line, O little station on the
Tennessee line Tho men had been gam
bling and quarrelec. Though but thirty
years of age, this is said to be the seventh
life brought to a sudden close by Bates
revolver He is a small, inoffensive-I look
ing man, and is said never to have been
the aggressor in any affair Of blood il
which lie had hand.
The equinox brought frost.
Mr.. William Paxton, who lived in the
upper edge Of Lancaster County, s. c.,
committed suicide few days since by
hanging himself. He was a soldier in the
Mexican war, and had been trying to get
pension for some time. He had grown
despondent on the subject, and this is sup
posed to have been the cause Of his
suicide.
Mrs. Lizzie Schultz, a handsome young
woman, who recently tried to shoot Mrs.
Cohen at Mem phis, Tenn, for being too
affectionate with her (Mrs. SchuiH's)
husband, was fined fifty dollars and sent
to the work house for six mon tbs for car
rysng a pistol
A bureau of labor statistics has been
organized in North Carolina.
A man IN Lexington, Ga, recently went
to law with his wife over the ownership
of a hog worth three dollars. 1t seems
the hgs band had repeatedly declared that
the animal belonged to his wife when
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